Am I being over-sensitive? My daughter brought home a book from school, containing five stories, and I think they’re awful! One story (the title story: The Purple Fox) ends with “They flung themselves on the fox in fury and tore him to pieces”. In another story four brothers created a dragon, who then ate them all. Another is about simple Simon, and says things like “Not only was Simon stupid, he was poor as well. He was too stupid to learn a trade, and could not be trusted to do the simplest job. He begged for a living, and even did that badly. If you gave him money, he would probably lose it before he got home.” It ends with the very dubious moral “Simon admits that he is not at all clever. “But who cares?” he asks. “Maybe it’s better to be lucky.” Perhaps Simon is not so simple after all.”
It was published 30 years ago.
My daughter is in Reception, and is a confident reader so chooses books from a box in the year 3 classroom, and therefore there is obviously some risk that she’ll choose something containing content that is more suitable for an 8-year-old than a 5-year-old. However, I don’t think these stories are suitable even for older children! Am I being over-sensitive?
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Is it just me, or is this book a bit inappropriate for primary age children?
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Ginmummy1 · 13/03/2016 19:08
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